Message #55929

[looniebirds]

So how would that work anyway?  Clyde [ringneck] likes to be sprayed.  That is how I give him a bath!  So if a bird is screaming, that is what they want you to do?  If they are like Clyde, they might consider this a reward!  So then they would scream if they want to get sprayed. [Clyde]  That was how the previous owner's husband would "discipline" Clyde for screaming, even though the lady said not to.  But that was and still is something Clyde likes.  So Clyde was rewarded for screaming.  I still do this sometimes when  Clyde screams, not as a punishment, but as a distraction, I have never seen a bird scream and preen at the same time.  To deliver a stream of water in any animals face is cruel.  I have used a water pistol at cats before, but not in the face.  It really doesn't work, though.